For at least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols
ALDOUS HUXLEYA really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.
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The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.
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He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
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Experience teaches only the teachable.
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Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.
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An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.
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The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
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I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
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Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.
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Liberty, as we all know, cannot flourish in a country that is permanently on a war footing, or even a near war footing. Permanent crisis justifies permanent control of everybody and everything by the agencies of central government.
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The trouble with fiction,” said John Rivers, “is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.
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Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare, it is simply disgraceful.
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Never give children a chance of imagining that anything exists in isolation. Make it plain from the very beginning that all living is relationship. Show them relationships in the woods, in the fields, in the ponds and streams, in the village and in the country around it. Rub it in.
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So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.
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The greater part of the population is not very intelligent, dreads responsibility, and desires nothing better than to be told what to do. Provided the rulers do not interfere with its material comforts and its cherished beliefs, it is perfectly happy to let itself be ruled.
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